FIRST TIME REACTING TO | SPANDAU BALLET "TRUE" REACTION

[@gpxo11]

Studio version of this is a must hear!!

[@SoStrong39]

The Biggest & Most Popular Sample of this was by P.M. Dawn with the Song: Set Adrift on Memory Bliss .

[@BossANova-xw9qi]

I think that's highly debatable. Lloyd's "You" is pretty popular as well

[@SoStrong39]

@Boss A. Nova , No Disrespect Implied or Directed at any Artist who Sampled or Covered the Song. Just stating that this was One of the Most recognized Samples. Glad that the Original inspired so many Artists to share their versions.

[@annother3350]

You need the official video version

[@guillermomartinez2339]

Yes you have to listen to it in studio version...and its PM Dawn who sampled this and it was around 1992

[@stevenguzman4058]

The official video PLEASE!!!!! GIRL YOUR KILLING ME!!!!😢😢😢😢

[@futuregenerationz]

I feel you. The value of the original art is lost in favor of a visual of the artist, which should mean nothing. In that case, listen to more Katy Perry.

[@greendragonpublishing]

It's not just the visual. It's the fact that the studio version has precise nuance that is sometimes lost in a live performance. Live performances are meant to be enjoyed by those who are familiar with the magic of the original, so can appreciate the additions/modifications as additions to the amazing original. But if you don't KNOW the original version, then that improvement is lost.

[@JadeK297]

@@futuregenerationz I think you meant Taylor Swift 😂

[@darrell8209]

I'm starting to think she does this just to get on people's nerves 😅😅

[@stevenguzman4058]

It's why I unsubscribed from her cousins channel. They don't get the context from live and end up waaay off like on Born In the USA.

[@barrydraper]

Great reaction! 🙌 Spandau Ballet was a British new wave and synth-pop band that gained popularity in the 1980s. Formed in London in 1979, the band consisted of Tony Hadley (vocals), Gary Kemp (guitar), Martin Kemp (bass guitar), Steve Norman (saxophone), and John Keeble (drums). They were known for their fusion of new wave, synth-pop, and blue-eyed soul, and were part of the New Romantic movement. Their hit song "True," released in 1983, was a global success and remains one of their most well-known songs. Spandau Ballet had other successful hits and released six albums before disbanding in 1990, leaving a lasting legacy on the 1980s music scene.

[@santuko4444]

Damn you Barry!!!!!!!!!!!! You pretty much said what I was going to….. GEN X!!!!

A lot of info what you gave there... but you haven't answered Britt's question about where the name of the band comes from. Do you know that Spandau is a city?

[@santuko4444]

@ No I did not. My pretentious teenage self missed that one ….🥺

[@barrydraper]

@ According to an article on Tampa Bay Times, the band selected the name as something unique written on a bathroom stall. However, the term “Spandau Ballet” originated during World War I as a bleak description of the twitching done by shot-down Allied Forces in their last living moments when caught in barbwire after being chased and shot down by German planes using the Spandau machine gun, a new weapon that allowed the machine gun to be attached and fired from the airplane’s propeller area.

[@originalhgc]

Of course it's been sampled. Music that relies on sampling old songs because songwriters can't seem to write their own hooky melodies anymore is the norm.

[@bobbywikstrom79]

Sampling isnt a new thing.

@@bobbywikstrom79 You're right. It isn't. However, in the past it wasn't so common and it existed much more creativity while nowadays sampling seems to be the norm and is very rare to find artists who are so creative and unique and making their own path in terms of being "original". One of the reasons for that is that in the last decades, mainly since the arrive of MTV ("Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits is about that), the music industry is developed in a way that the last generations are focused in producing mostly music with the only intention of making money and not putting much effort in being creative (low investment - highest income possible).

[@xmathmanx]

So, you know absolutely nothing about modern music yet you feel like you can dismiss it, what a fucking genius

[@xmathmanx]

​@nice theory dude, sadly it has nothing to do with reality, there is plenty of great music being made right now which does not use samples, it's actually quite extraordinary how ignorant you are

[@zoeherriot]

@ I think what's less common is actually "artists" writing their own music. The top 10 music these days is music written by committee.

[@ToeTag1968]

I don't know what was sampled in 2010, but in the 1990's, PM Dawn sampled this for their hit, "Set Adrift On Memory Bliss."

[@pamagnolia]

Great song! Tony Hadley’s voice is awesome!!

[@brittreacts]

agreed!

[@deltabravo287]

Another one where the studio version is a million times better.

[@HollerMa71]

I can't hear this song without thinking of the movie "Sixteen Candles" Jake Ryan dancing in the gym with Caroline while Samantha (Molly Ringwald) stares at him longingly.💗💗 Something about putting a song in a great movie makes it instantly timeless

[@KirkVandermiller]

I read an interview of the singer of this band where he said, Yeah, I'm going bald and I have a belly now but every now and then I drop into a karaoke bar and wait for my chance to get up on stage and then I sing this song and every song in the bar drops as I belt it out almost as good as I did on the album. Nice.

[@billgeary5253]

I grew up in the 80s... thankfully we had the official music videos back then...lol

[@katherinefrost5808]

This brings me back to my time as a Soldier stationed in Germany in the 1980's… I loved this song (club song). Fast-forward 25 years later and I am a retired Army officer just reminiscing about those days.

[@capricornwoman6726]

Wow, it's a small world! My Dad was in the Air Force and we lived in Frankfurt for 12 years. This song is still played at our yearly high school reunions.

[@michaelpoe2366]

1983 was when True was released by Spandau Ballet, the original song. Try the official music version.

[@djprideone1]

hope you get a chance to hear the studio version ..first time this was sampled was in the early 90s by P.M. Dawn for the Set Adrift on Memory Bliss track and also the singer of spandau ballet makes a cameo in their offficial video

[@exsenator1]

In my very humble opinion I would love to see you react to the originals first and then live performances but that's just me 😅

[@stpetie7686]

Totally agree. Especially on this particular song. The studio version is a way better introduction.

[@jorgejaime4325]

Spandau ballet was a slang during the first world war. Spandauu was a machine gun manufacturer in Germany. When an aliied soldier got tangled in the barbed wire during and attack to the German trenches and hit many times with bullets from this machine guns. The shaking of the body hanging on the wire was called Spandau ballet

Spandau is actually the name of the city in Germany. You can search it on Google maps to see where is located.

[@angelomaurizio1668]

You should see the video to this song so you could hear the recorded version, it sounds alot better. The song was a worldwide hit - released in 1983.

[@HyggeDk]

Yes I agree with everyone. Original videos please!!!!!

[@jamesalexander5623]

NO! For these 80's songs the Original Videos Only!

[@CyanCerulian]

Spandau was a prison in Germany, where world war2 war criminal were kept after trial. If their crimes were serious they were hung. While they were hanging there it was observed that they were writhing and twisting and kicking their legs in what was known as the Spandau Ballet. Sorry.

[@sentokigames151]

PM Dawn - Set A Drift On Memory Bliss 1991

[@stevedurnell4002]

Love your awesome voice you have too Britt.❤️❤️👍

[@brittreacts]

thank you!

[@19chucki74]

One of my favorites from the 80s. The official video is one to see, and the harmonies are remarkable.

[@comic102975]

One of my most favorite songs and even though I grew up with this song in the 80s, I still associate it with Adam Sandler's The Wedding Singer. Lol

[@xzonia1]

Lol

[@franckmedina3346]

The original song

[@WineSippingCowboy]

Released 40 years ago 🎂. The album, which is also True, was recorded in Bahamas 🇧🇸, close to where The Police recorded the album Synchronicity. Spandau Ballet was reaching its peak 😃 while The Police was in turmoil, having Synchronicity as their final studio album. 😖 Sting and Tony Hadley would eventually meet in Band Aid. True was written by Gary Kemp. He looks and sounds like Dave Matthews, who is from South Africa 🇿🇦. GK is a host of the music show The Rockentours. (sic). His (younger) brother is Martin Kemp. He was once married to Shirley Holliman, who was a backup singer for Wham! You can see them in the music video 📹.Last Christmas 🎄 Keyboardist was Jess Bailey. He quit and became a producer. Marvin refers to the late Marvin Gaye, RIP. Suggested video 📹: Spandau Ballet performs Highly Strung.

[@marksilverman4537]

You need to hear the studio version - it's superior.

[@willfromyadkinville]

With a thrill in my head and a pill on my tongue Dissolve the nerves that have just begun Listening to Marvin (all night ) epic!

[@sadfaery]

If I remember correctly, there's also a version of this song in the movie The Wedding Singer, with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore.

[@buckinjb]

this is such a great song. everything about it.

[@briang6815]

Nelly - N Dey Say samples the song. It's where I first heard it before ever hearing this song.

[@Primal391]

Album version is better. It’s deeper sounding. This sounds so light.

[@omvan996]

My one of favorite song played when i was radio on air..in 90s thanks.. from Indonesia

[@stevedurnell4002]

You got the most gererous smile ever on you Britt.❤️👍

[@Schematic264]

Always loved this song, even when it was played constantly...ear worm...

[@robingerhardpopma2587]

To make a long story short: They're great. And I'm saying this as an Iron Maiden fan myself. Cheers Robin

[@raymondstewart4094]

One of the best romantic rock songs of the 1980s a great group.

[@brittreacts]

glad you enjoyed it!

[@davehelms1398]

Watch the original video, the guys were extreme hot, I believe they met while modeling. The harmony is provided by real life brothers, the guitar & piano player (who starred in a movie as twin ganster brothers called 'The Krays'), the blond sax player, was always stunning, they were contemparies of Duran,Duran, Harcut 100 and other 'glam' British Bands. You pronounce it correct "span-dow bal-lay".

[@WhisperedDreams951]

Nostalgia at it's lust - bravo!

[@lisazaccardimeunier8378]

P.M. Dawn sampled this in "Send Adrift on Memory Bliss" in 1991, the year I graduated high school.

[@andywatkins2876]

PM Dawn sampled the intro circa 1991.

[@carolthomson9099]

Come on PLEASE do the official videos to understand the original sound then by all means do the live version. The women in the backing are not in the original, while they can sing, I don't like this version. Please listen to the original video versions of songs first.

[@NYCNibbles]

Haha! My ears perked up a little when I heard East-West Connector ... back to the days before I relocated.

[@brittreacts]

haha

[@edford1693]

This song has been used by a bank. It is playing in the background at a wedding in their commercials. Turbo Tax is using it as well. 👍👍

[@anthonywoodward8542]

Glad you found this 80's classic. From this era you might want to consider reacting to the Ultravox song Vienna, considered by many to be the best British song never to reach number one in the charts. If you do react to Vienna, you might include a few seconds of Joe Dolce's "Shaddap You Face", the song mostly responsible for keeping it from the top spot. Ahh the fickleness of music and the curse of novelty songs. 😉

[@MrBillygoat77]

Never not ever

[@greeneyesinfl9954]

Listening to Marvin all night long as a shout out to Marvin Gaye.

[@Nandello]

Official version is better

[@dillodefense]

I agree! The official version is so much better!

[@anniek4919]

Every time I hear this song it reminds me of the episode of Modern Family where Claire surprises Phil by inviting one of the band members of Spandau Ballet to serenade Phil thinking True was his favorite song and that he loved the band- which he didn’t. Such a hilarious episode since it wasn’t even the lead singer who Claire invited to their house.

[@becomethestar]

PM Dawn - Set adrift on memory bliss (1991) was an amazing sample and even featured the singer of Spandau Ballet at the end of the video. Lloyd sampled it in 2007 with I want you. Unfortunately this live version hurts my ears and soul. Its serves it no true justice.

[@Royal_BLT]

🇨🇦 My next choice for you would be the official video of Everybody wants to rule the World by Tears for fears ! Trust me, LOL

[@xzonia1]

One of my all time favorite songs! Angsty goodness to my teen heart in the 80s. :)

[@fuerchtnix1]

Das ist das großartige, dass die tollen und einzigartigen Hits meiner Jugend heute remixed und wieder entdeckt werden!!! This is the great thing that the great and unique hits of my youth are remixed today and rediscovered!!! 💛🧡❤💖

[@gwyntx7620]

Actually got to see them perform waaayy back in the day. They were great

[@mattsrecordcollection]

I was a senior in high school when this came out, damn I'm old. Great memories though

[@brittreacts]

hope you enjoyed it!

[@sjlittler70]

I’m of the age where the sample was by PM Dawn… set adrift on memory bliss!! 😊

[@davidshattock9522]

The name is referring to the spasmodic movements of people who attacked the Germans trenches on ww1 .getting hit by the machine gun fire ,the guns were made at Spandau armoury

[@pfcampos7041]

Luuuuv this song! An early 80's hit, I still can't hear it without my heart aching with adolescent angst. The studio version is significantly better.

[@brittreacts]

glad you enjoyed it!

[@simonpoole2333]

Spandau Ballet were part of the English/British New Romantics scene of the early to mid 80s. I can't see this video but I'm guessing this was filmed years after it was first recorded. I can't even see if it's just Tony Hadley (the lead singer) or all the original band.

[@magaliedeconto1682]

Good day please" through the barricades", it's a MASTERPIECE 😢❤

[@anthonyf8121]

You’ll enjoy the video much better.

[@jameswhite7139]

Not official video. Sound quality of this is not good. Review the video, that is what was played on radio. Much better. Plus you do not have both guys who did original vocals on this live version.

[@JenVanVeelo]

First sample was set adrift on memories blist in 1991😊

[@markrobinson5034]

I saw how much you enjoyed the backing singers, have a look at the song 'wonderful tonight' by eric clapton on the 24 nights concert at the Royal Albert Hall, stunning, singers are Tessa Niles and Katie Kissoon.

[@josephdenney6701]

Pm dawn did a sample of this song

[@PjRjHj]

Not a great live version, classic song though. Written by Gary Kemp (the guitarist) as an unrequited love letter to Altered Images singer Clare Grogan. Not my favourite Spandau Ballet song, and out of their bigger hits, I think "Gold" and "Only when you leave" are better.

[@stevedurnell4002]

The song is called True Britt.

[@PjRjHj]

You pronounced the name correctly. Pretty sure the name was taken from some graffiti at Berlin's infamous Spandau Prison. Something along the lines of the 'ballet' being the spasms of a body which dropped through the hangman's dropdoor. Dark, but not as dark as Joy Division's name.

[@dieterdodel835]

Journalist Robert Elms, who was a friend of the band and wrote for the British fashion magazine The Face, saw this name on the wall of a toilet in a Berlin nightclub in connection with the war criminals prison in Berlin-Spandau, which inspired the musicians for their band name. source: wiki

[@PjRjHj]

@@dieterdodel835 cheers for the clarification

[@TexasMagnolia]

The same pattern as to why I unsubscribed from MrLloyd. Videos are important and the rain screen. Almost done.

[@reboss44]

This was also sampled by PM Dawn

[@bobbywikstrom79]

Hey @BrittReacts, the Lil Wayne song is called "You." Also, a good song

[@craigmarkowski7156]

Back in the eighties PM Dawn mix this into one of their songs , "Baby you send me "

[@zekesanchez1851]

Some artists have to step on the shoulders of "giants" to gain recognition. It's easy to write a song, especially if it's been written already, and was a major hit in the '80s. The younger generations (like youself) won't know about these iconic classic songs unless you hear the original song that was sampled.

[@therealcarter1353]

Love Me some Britt…..this song is known Worldwide

[@brittreacts]

glad you enjoyed it!

[@davidnettles4734]

Nelly sampled it. Lil Wayne may have too, idk his discography well. But for sure Nelly did in the song N Dey Say. It’s actually a really great song with some meaning behind it

[@claimguy]

Rule 1 of Reacting- Do the studio version unless the requestors (many of them) specifically advise doing a live version. Prime example = Marshall Tucker Band "Can't You See".

[@vernonwashington2039]

Pm dawn sampled this in the early 90’s in the song Set adrift on memory bliss

[@victorduffany7723]

On the sampling, you gotta remember most rappers are not song writers but more akin to poets who know how to read their own work. Just so you know, Spandau is the name of a prison in England.

[@peterwesson7324]

Spandau was the prison in Germany where Rudolf Hess was held

[@victorduffany7723]

@@peterwesson7324 That is true. "Spandau Prison was located in the borough of Spandau in West Berlin. It was originally a military prison, built in 1876, but became a proto-concentration camp under the Nazis. After the war, it held seven top Nazi leaders convicted in the Nuremberg trials."

[@lt.spears1889]

You need the original video

[@domofreak]

Oh, snap! I'm usu here for the Harry Mack reactions but I will never EVER pass up a reaction to this classic. I'm an 80s kid, and along with a LOT of other people in my generation, this is a major/important song in the soundtracks to our lives. This was the song where you finally got up the courage to ask your crush to dance. And it's timeless. Even if you don't do an offical reaction to it (for copyright reasons or whatever), please PLEASE go see the original studio version. It's a warm blanket you want to curl up in

[@wgdavis5353]

Hi Ms. Britt, A Great, Great Song.. No Correction needed.. ♠W.G.

[@brittreacts]

thank you! glad you enjoyed it!

[@FlamesCagney]

for a real treat .. listen to 'Chant No. 1". by them.

[@wgdavis5353]

Hi Ms. Britt, Sampled by Lloyd, Andre 3000 ft. NAS;; Also by Lloyd, Lil Wayne.. I think they call that part "I Want You".. Lyrics She's Fine Too.. ♠W.G.

[@birdsnestsnature]

original version would have been better to react

[@kathleenmayhorne3183]

Thus live version is very pale compared to the earlier recording.

[@dennisjames1792]

I always thought Spandau Ballet reffered to the changing of the gaurde at spandau prison in germany .

[@ShortyRock801]

PM Dawn - Set Adrift on Memory Bliss

[@greendragonpublishing]

Ah, this was the sweet, easy 80s classic. SOO popular.

[@brittreacts]

it is great!

[@Youdoneedmyname]

PM Dawn also sampled this.

[@ghfantexas6848]

'Cause every girl crazy 'bout a sharp-dressed man…..ZZ Top.

[@Renovion]

you owe it to yourself to watch the official version... this one is actually rather sad.

[@comic102975]

@Brittreacts if you enjoy finding original songs that were sampled, I can hit you up with a list, unless you meant finding them organically.

[@jeannoah2018]

Should be reacting to he stuio version - I had heard this group wasn't that great in person. The studio recording is great!

[@danrumble74]

I can't imagine living my life having heard this live version of the song first.. or thinking that stealing a melody & changing the words constitutes a sample 🥴

[@TheOrlandoTrustfull]

Every song is sampled

[@MrDECKA59]

PM Dawn?

[@raymondstewart4094]

Please do a reaction to Neil Sedaka Laughter in the rain

[@PhillyGoon81]

You're probably thinking about Lloyd's "You"

[@jeff28791]

dude i literally googled it and was like noooooo way lol

[@stevedurnell4002]

The song is called True Britt but then I was growing up songs had meaning too it and content most songs today don't have that at all now this music too not the music that is out today it's isn't music too me Britt.🌹❤️👍